Famous dog pornographer William Wegman tricked the whole world into thinking his portraits of sexy, powerful women with the heads of Weimaraners were art. Come learn how he's responsible for breaking the brain of our favorite chaos gremlin, Hana Michels! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

We take a look back at 2025, revisiting the lofty highs and actionable lows! A year jam packed with cursed movies, games, books and origin stories. People died. Seanbaby ate a kid. Half our guests wound up with lock jaw. But in the end, we found that comedy was truly the family we learned along the way. Also, Robert wrote a book. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

David Bell joins us to talk about Straight Up, the D.A.R.E. program's most confusing attempt to save children from the horrors of recreational drug use. Starring Lou Gossett, Jr., Chad Allen, a drug detecting headband, and sexy, sexy heroin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

In 1992, Image Comics launched with an all-star lineup full of Hot Dog touchstones like Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, and Exploding Fred. We'll let 1900HOTDOG's very own Rusty Shackles tell you why this was his cursed media origin story, and we'll let Exploding Fred explain why it still matters today. Fred? Fred? Buddy? Ah, he exploded. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

This week Dan McQuade shares his start into the world of cursed media with an instructional Yo-Yo VHS Variety Show featuring the one and only Yo-Yo Man, Tom Smothers! Also featuring the Yo-Yo Master. Don't confuse the two, they absolutely hate each other and will flip out on you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

Mutant Chronicles is K-Mart Warhammer 40k. A grimdark TTRPG featuring shoulder pads, attainable middle class living, huge sexy broads, shoulder pads, skulls, blood, tables, tables, tables, and shoulder pads! And it was Tom Reimann's awakening to a world of cursed media. It's why he always wears those shoulder pads. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Two words: Gay barbarian death cult featuring Fred Williamson. Dirk Marshall's origin story is 1983's "Warriors of the Wasteland," quite possibly the most beautiful story of car-based anal revenge drilling ever put to VHS by a drunk Italian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Jason Pargin's favorite hotdog is a hamburger with a side of racism, an icey glass of sexual assualt and a garnish of songs that are maybe some of the best ever written. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Pierce Brosnan: Own it, enjoy it, don't worry about it. Words our guest Alex Schmidt lives by. Join us as the DOGGZZONE dives into what may be the most handsome origin story of any guest!

MORE Brosnan! Because one Brosnan is never enough. Just ask Schmidty, he'll tell ya!

The Dogg Zzone welcomes Dimitri Simakis from Everything Is Terrible for another Hot Dog origin story! Come learn how a pitcher of rapping sugar water led to the creation of the world's largest collection of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

The original Rock 'n' Roll High School was a fun punk rock classic. The sequel is a Corey Feldman musical. It's the farthest human art has fallen in the least amount of time, and fucking Zak Koonce insisted we watch it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Back in the 1990s we briefly mistook elaborate prosthetics for comedy. That's how we got The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys, a Howie Mandel production starring three suffocating improv comedians dying inside defective sex toys. Michael Swaim will explain how they influenced the course of his entire life. Presumably for the worse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Roll up an illegitimate, alcoholic Glitter Boy and step into the world of the RIFTS Source Book with Merritt K. What happens when you put EVERYTHING in a single tabletop role-playing game? Local lunatic Kevin Siembieda tried to answer that question and wound up with an unplayable game and a mechanical battle kangaroo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Learning can be fun! But not here. Here, you suffer. Mark Mahoney hates your brain and he's going to prove it with, "Learn at Every Turn." Warning: Contains a sexy and naked native sexual awakening and NOTHING ELSE. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

The late Dennard Dayle brought White Chicks into the Dogg Zzone. Seanbaby and Brockway did what had to be done. Dennard claimed the film was responsible for his origin as a comedian and curator of cursed media. It's almost admirable, that he was willing to die for this. He would be missed, if it weren't for White Chicks. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-dodge-a-cannonball-dennard-dayle/1146167653 ALSO... Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

We're exploring the cursed media origins of the Hot Dog Crew, and this week it's Lydia Bugg with a show called Atlantis High, a paranormal New Zealand YA sitcom. It's like Saved by the Bell meets The X Files, but darker and hornier than either of those things. It definitely shouldn't exist, but it does explain absolutely everything about Lydia.

Nobody's first memory should be Mickey Rooney's head, magically bisected and glued to the side of a three dimensional rainbow puzzle box. But it does explain some things about Brockway. Come listen as he makes his broken memories Seanbaby and Hana's problem. It's another Hot Dog Origin Story! Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Have you ever wondered what makes Seanbaby tick? Of course not, it's universally understood that Seanbaby runs on KICK and PUNCH and HUNK. In this episode, learn Seanbaby's Hot Dog Origin story alongside Brockway and guest, Mark Mahoney. Try to act surprised when it turns out to be geriatric exercises from the 1980s dressed up as karate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Who likes highway patrolman secret ninja force hijinks? Trade in your guns for shurikens and fingertip suction, because we're talking CHiPS: FORCE SEVEN with pretend ninja expert Eddie Doty.